Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-14

Mrs. Frances Bishop, wife of John |
Bishop, is dangerously ill with lung
fever. Also little son of Mr.. and Mrs. |
Err. Stark is down with the same dis
ease.
Mr.. Snow has been running long and
extensive accounts all over the country
this winter, and there have been doubts
expressed if he would ever liquidate, but
he commenced settling this morning and
the banks viii soon be full.
was not aware until the next day
that there had been two donations run
ming the same night, and that / was the
chief and only donor in one of them.
My boy discovered it when he went TO
the root house. had kind of chart
table feeling that night / remember, but
could not account for it. 1t is plain
enough now. l was being liberal and
didn't know it. 1t was surprise party,
with the surprise of it delayed until the
next day, then was the surprise party.
have forgotten the name of the donee,
in fact never knew it for he never left
his card; but he probably had the first
surprise when, after he had pried open
doors and pulled down hay and got in
some of the --LATEST crawling possible,
and turned the potato pile upside down,
he found only about half bushel of
very much assorted ''praties." He must
have felt mad as well as surprised. So
| did when the committee of one on veg
etables made his report. 1t was mean
to be obliged to take off so small load
and leave such big track. And it was
all my fault, for l ought to have had
more on hand; but owing to the poor
ground, and the drought. and the Color
ado guerilla, and political duties, and
the town hogs, and constitutional
apathy sandwiched in regularly between
each of the aforesaid hinderances, with
the assistance of Kern'S saw, / was able
to harvest my crop of taters in two
hours, and haul them in on wheel
barrow. So Twas short on potatoes; so
were you Mr.. Donee, considering the
weather and the travelling. lam willing
to call it stand-of Like the lawyer
who took the silver when he could not
get gold, you ''took all the poor devil
had,n and that was proper; like the poor
widow ] gave YOU my Unite, it was all
/ had, and very small potatoes at that,
but it makes me as good man as the
famous widow, and | am content. |
also feel grateful to you when j think
that none of us will have to sort over
that pile any more; | think the whole
family feel the same way. There viii
be no more undue haste to see who will
get the first job at the biggest potato.
Again, when / was in the army, with
other bad habits, acquired that of eat
ing and liking beans. When / came
home the habit still stuck to me. The
rest of the family (notably the cook
were not in the service, have not ac-
quired that liking, and have not been
able 70 get my favorite food as often as
| would have liked to. Far from it.
But now, thanks to Mr.. Donee, it is
beans or nothing, as there is not pota-
to for sale in this town. (This fact is
another excuse for Donee's venture)
and can have ''beans for dinner, .beans
for for SUPPER beans, beans. beans.
| Taking all around, am thankful for the
visit of my predatory friend, although
! apparently little out of season, and |
would like TO meet him and thank him
personally. But fear that he will feel
a foolish delicacy about introducing him.
self, and that l shall meet him daily Ct
think IwilD and pass him by and make
no sign; and neither viii he. But, my
benefactor, if [ can buy the seed, and
get over my love for physical calm. and
get my taters planted and well tended,
and the bugs viii withhold their jaws, land
the town hogs are kept at home, and
there is no rot, shall lay out for big
crop this season, and when they are
safely housed / will leave the doors un-
locked and sack all handy for you in
the doorway, and just you come, in well
come, and-I'll fill you so full of buck
shot, you'll never pack them off, you
long-legged, lazy, prowling, splay footed
son of gun, of low-down thief That's
| the t1.ue inwardness of my fanl;nns Nv